Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg – PES 201

My guest is Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, cohost of The Jason & Scot Show (an e-commerce podcast). Find him on Twitter @retailgeek

Overview of Jason’s production workflow:

• RX 7 Standard (if noise reduction is required)
• Adobe Audition
• Loudness Normalization -23 LUFs
• Scheps omni-channel w/ settings from Chris Curran
• Fabfilter plugins, Accusonus ERA 4 (if needed / rarely used)
• Exported ISO’s to Auphonic Multitrack
• Auphonic mixes in intro/outro music, levels the episode, adds metadata, generates MP3, uploads to libsyn, (and to Google translate and Dropbox)
• Show notes in WordPress (pasted into Libsyn for publishing)

Jason’s equipment:

• Home Studio: MKH-416 —> Rolls Mic Mute —> MixPre-6 Gen 2 (recorder and interface) —> MacBook Pro 15
• Solo Travel kit: Beyerdynamic M201TG —> Fethead —> Centrance Mic Port 2
• Group Location: SM58’s —> MixPre-6 Gen 2

Other stuff we discussed:

• RE20 w/Cloudlifter
• O.C. White boom arm mounted to the wall
• Hook Studios: OCTO-842S pop filter and THS-MDM Microphone Decoupler
• Mogami cables
• Rolls Mic Switch
• Nightlights from Zazzle!!! 
• X-keys, widgets with various numbers of keys
• Microsoft Teams
• Crossgating using Auphonic
• Sends audio to be transcribed
• Time offset – conversation comes in X seconds before the intro piece ends
• Duplicate Post plugin for WordPress

Thanks for being a great guest and sharing so much with us, Jason!

Comment below with any questions or comments.